12-19-2008, 03:13 PM
Stein, it looks really good. Switching is my favorite part of model operations, so I really like your layout. As I looked at your track plan,and your plans for cassettes to move trains on and off the layout, it occurred to me that the barge dock just begs for a car float loading dock at the end of that barge dock track. That way you load a train on a cassette, put the cassette on a cart that is at the correct height to have the track line up. You then roll the cart into the end of the dock, and run the train onto the layout or remove another train the same way. If there is a switch on the end of the cassette, you could use two tracks to move one train on and one off or two on or two off the layout.